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The canonical tag primarily functions as the method to uniquely identify a web page. In your website, you can have several URLs which take you to precisely the same web page with the same content. Maybe many of those URLs include parameters that don’t change the content of the page. Even when you do not …

With the acceptance of the canonical tag by the “big dogs” in the search engine game, information for implementing it are now readily available on the World Wide Web. As always, some sources are more reliable than others and the quality and quantity of information varies widely from one resource to the next. In the …

Implementing support for a canonical page is easy, at least in technical terms. In many cases, it may be more difficult to determine where duplicates may be an issue within your site and which page to specify as the URL to index. Read on for help with both. The first step in providing a canonical …

By now you’ve probably heard of a new “canonical tag” supported by the major search engines. You may have also heard that it’s an important new tool for developers and SEO experts. What you may not know is what it does and why it might be important to your site. This article will attempt to …